Wait, who downvoted this? ๐ I'm not mad, I'm just curious as to how a link to an interview could make someone go, "Nope, this is trash. To the pit of Hades with you."
I turn my back for a few weeks and this is the sort of shit you guys get up to? ๐
Well... It works, but a couple of notes (mostly to myself, but, experts, feel free to weigh in) for the future:
- Don't lead with the "@adventuregames" tag. It's messy.
- Keep titles short, 'cos it copies the contents of the post as the title.
- Figure out if there's a way to split title and post content in the Mastodon toot, so the post content isn't just a copy of the title.
- I can't edit the post after the fact ('cos my Mastodon user and Lemmy user are, as far as this platform is concerned, two different people), and I'm worried if I edit the toot on Mastodon, it'll just post a new thread here instead of editing the existing one.
Mine is hands down the green alien fart cloud in The Pandora Directive. For three simple reasons:
- I don't like being chased.
- I don't like being on a timer.
- It scares the crap out of me to this day.
I usually panic to the point where I forget everything I need to do, despite having played the game a million times, and I spam the everloving hell out of the hint system.
Runner-up, also from the Tex Murphy series: the GRS "eyeball droid" in Under a Killing Moon. For some reason Access just felt compelled to put one pants-crapping sequence into each of these games...
What's that one adventure game you can just boot up and have a great chill time with? Mine would probably be Day of the Tentacle. It's such a wonderful, colorful world to inhabit, and all the characters are lively and oozing with personality (no Sludge-o-Matic pun intended). I could spend hours just walking around talking to characters and not even think about solving any puzzles.
What's the one game you'd boot up to just relax with?
One of the things that have always endeared me to adventure games above all other types of fiction (books, movies, etc.) is that they give the player the opportunity to shape the story and unfold it at their own pace. While some games are content to have a linear story (and no slight against that โ some absolute classics have only one straight solution), I am truly fascinated by the games that play up the "interactive" part of the medium.
While games like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Westwood's Blade Runner games did a bang-up job of giving us ample replayability value, I feel nothing comes close to the sheer mind-bogglingly malleable story of Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive. How they managed to cram all that game content onto "just" 6 CDs is beyond me.
And what I truly love about it is that it's not just a case of "pick your path," like in Fate of Atlantis, but that the game keeps track of how you respond to NPCs and shapes the story accordingly. If you're kind and generous to people, you get put on the good path. If you're an opportunistic dick, you get sent on the bad path. And if you wibble-wobble between the two, you get sent on the middle-road path. And each path has multiple endings of its own!
What are some of your favorite games that let you experience the story in multiple ways?
A lot of people really hold this one in very high regard. Unfortunately, with regards to a rerelease, the rights situation is a tangled spiderweb of immense proportions.
Loom may not exactly be obscure by any standard, but I don't see it being mentioned nearly as much as, say, Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island. But it was a truly revolutionary way of reimagining the adventure game genre, and in a very early age of point-and-click. No inventory, single mouse click interaction, using spells to interact with the environment...
Of course, you'll want to play the original floppy version to get the full story; the CD-ROM version had its dialogue heavily truncated to fit onto the CD.
What's your pick?
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